Where minds and matters meet
Subtitle: technology in California and the West
By: edited by Volker Janssen
Contributors: Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
Series: Western histories -- 6
Publisher: Published for Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780873282512
Subjects: Politics and culture; Intellectual life; Technological innovations; Technology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Volker Janssen; title: Engineering the Golden State, 1900-1930; title: California's Fantasy Future at the 1915 : San Diego Panama-California Exposition / L. Chase Smith; title: Hetch Hetchy :   Technics, Politics, and Culture in Progressive Era California / Bruce Sinclair; title: A Deep Tradition of Computing Technology : Calculating electrification in the American West / Aristotle Tympas; title: The Public Relations of Urban Form : Los Angeles Traffic Commission and the Major Traffic Street Plan of 1924 / Matthew W. Roth; title: Technology and the West since 1945; title: From the American West to Afghanistan : The Technology of Large Dams and the Issue of Travel / Linda Nash; title: Landmark of Death : Safety, Responsibility, and the Question of a Suicide Barrier for the Golden Gate Bridge / Louise Nelson Dyble; title: Engineering Gender Revolution : Caltech and the Tensions of Women's Technical Minds / Amy Bix; title: Aerospace and Surfing : Connecting Two California Keynotes / Peter Neushul and Peter Westwick; title: Transcending Technologies and the Global West; title: California Scale : Vision and Subjectivity in Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten / Jason Weems; title: "Would Your Answers Spoil My Questions?" : Art and Technology at the RAND Corporation, 1968-1971 / Stephanie Young; title: "Time in Place" : Is There a California Style in Aerospace Timekeeping Technologies? / Carlene Stephens; title: Of Futures and Fringes : California's Technological Enthusiasts, 1970-1990 / Patrick McCray.